180. Simpson (William) Sketches of the Seat of the War in the East, First and Second Series, 2 vol. in 1, tinted lithograph vignette titles and 68 plates only (of 79), all with fine hand-colouring, 27 outline key plates only (of 36, one defective), lacking dedication and list of plates, titles foxed (the first with marginal tears), plates with some light spotting and soiling (mostly marginal), a few slightly soiled and frayed at edges, with 2 additional hand-coloured lithograph portraits (Florence Nightingale and Rear Admiral Sir Edmund Lyons) and 11 hand-coloured lithograph plates from Dolby’s ‘Sketches in the Baltic’ loosely inserted, also a hand-coloured lithographed view of Varna (torn and frayed at edges), loose as issued in original cloth-backed board folder with ties, rubbed and marked, ties defective, [Abbey Travel 237], folio, 1855-1856.
est. £2000 – £3000